- Pleo's skin is rubbery-sticky (a little like the soles on a brand new pair of Cons). We can totally see this thing feeling like a dinosaur.
- The motors on this thing are loud. Like, kind of distractingly loud. Yet somehow it remains ineffably adorable. You just want to take care of the little bugger.
- You hatch it early on by flipping its power switch and petting it until it awakens from its deep, late-Jurassic-era slumber.
- Jury's still out on the Tim Allen-esque grunting noises.
- Ugobe PR let us know that the first version of Life OS (the software that powers Pleo) isn't really set up to "evolve" as it was supposed to, but there will be new versions of Live OS in 2008, which will enable behavioral optimizations and that "evolution" thing.
- There will be an SDK! Take that, Aibo. Poor, poor Aibo, dead as a dino--never mind.
- Despite having a massive, heavy NiMH battery pack, it's only 2200mAh;
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More specs
- Camera-based light detection navigation
- Eight body sensors: head, chin, shoulders, back, legs
- Four foot switches, two mics, two speakers
- Orientation sensor and mouth IR detector
- Two 32-bit processors (central and image processing)
- Four 8-bit motor coprocessors
- 14 motors, 100 gears
- USB and SD